proprietor
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“It’s the same as the ingredients that built the Israelis,” said Eyal Shani, the Israeli chef and Miznon’s proprietor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
A sole proprietor earning $60,000, for example, may be able to contribute as both employee and employer, plus make an age 50 catch-up contribution.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
There’s Harley Russell, ribald proprietor and performer at the Sandhills Curiosity Shop in Erick, Okla. There’s Fran Houser, the late, widely beloved proprietor of the Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
For Joshua Pollack, the New Jersey-born proprietor of Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen in Denver, making an authentic New York bagel starts with producing authentic New York water, which many consider essential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Missus Nedraw, the proprietor of the Rorrim Mirror Emporium, had been the answer, proof that all was not lost.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Bucket shop patrons were positioned heavily for Amalgamated to rise, so the proprietors shorted the stock “to establish as low a quotation as possible,” the Journal wrote.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
To keep costs low, the couple looks for contractors who are sole proprietors and don’t have to cover the overhead of a big company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
This should lead to, among other thing, higher after-tax earnings for sole proprietors and small firms; stronger loan demand for community banks; and better exit economics for early stage investors, SocGen reckons.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025
Now proprietors are going after adults with concepts like Holey Moley and Punch Bowl Social, which combines eating and drinking with nostalgic amusements such as billiards, bowling, darts and arcade games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
There were no pheasant-shooting proprietors then, to see that the undergrowth was thinned, and not one thousandth part of the number of the present-day timber merchants who prune judiciously at the few remaining woods.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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